@ 15:05
BROOKLYN: *FDNY-MVA* AVE P & E 21 ST. FDNY BATT-33 INVOLVED IN AN MVA WHILE ENROUTE TO THE *10-75* BOX 3081. EMS O/S AND WILL TRANSPORT BOTH THE CHIEF AND HIS AIDE TO A LOCAL HOSP * MNS-154/106

@ 18:05
ELMONT, N.Y. ( NASSAU CO ) WORKING FIRE NO.53 BUFFALO AVE. BETWEEN CAROLINA AND TROY, FIRE IN A PRIVATE DWELLING FD JUST ARRIVING ON SCENE, AND 559 IS IN ROUTE MNS#559

@ 18:24
ELMONT, N.Y. ( NASSAU CO ) FIRE UNDER CONTROL AT THIS TIME, TWO LINES WERE STRETCHED, ONE OPERATED, FOR A KITCHEN FIRE IN A PRIVATE HOUSE. MNS 559 ON SCENE. ONE AIDED BEING TREATED AND TRANSPORTED FOR SMOKE INHALATION MNS#559

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NEW WINDSOR, NY (ORANGE) **NATURAL GAS LEAK** RIVER RD AT AMERICAN LAMINATES FD & PD O/S OF A HIGH PRESSURE GAS MAIN TO A COMEMRCIAL BLDG RUPTURED BY CONSTRUCTION CREWS, GAS CO REQ WITH A RUSH. NY51 * NY14. 1:41p.m.

On Wednesday, September 21, 2005, at 1628 hours (4:28 p.m. PDT), twenty-four companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, one Assistant Chief Officer Command Team, five Battalion Chief Officer Command Teams, four Battalion EMS Supervisors, twenty LAFD Rescue Ambulances, Heavy Rescue 56, two Urban Search and Rescue Teams, two LAFD Helicopters, one Los Angeles County Battalion Chief, one LA County Fire Company, two LA County Fire Boats, two Coast Guard Fire Boats, five private Ambulances, and other city and state agencies, under the direction of Deputy Chief Mario D. Rueda, were pre-deployed to Los Angeles International Airport in response to an in bound Jet Blue Aircraft with a nose gear problem. The Los Angeles Fire Department was informed that A Jet Blue Air Bus, with one hundred and forty-five passengers and crew-members had departed Bob Hope Airport in Burbank en route to JFK Airport in New York had discovered a problem with its landing gear. The pilot was directed to divert to Long Beach Airport for an emergency landing. On a low altitude fly-by at Long Beach Air Port, it was quickly ascertained by the tower that the nose gear of the aircraft was not properly in place for a routine landing. Due to the position of the nose gear at a 90-degree angle and the problem that may ensue upon landing, the aircraft was directed to land at LAX on Runway 25Left, the southern most runway. At approximately 6:17 p.m. PDT, with LAFD resources strategically place along the runway and staged at a near by fire station, Jet Blue Flight 292 landed safely on runway 25 left amid sparks, smoke, and flames from the burning tires. All of the passengers and crewmembers were safely evacuated from the aircraft and no injuries were reported. The cause of the malfunctioning nose gear is under investigation by LAX authorities, the NTSB, the FAA, and other investigative agencies.

All - Hands:
7 - 5 - 867 @ 01:47
Batt. 9 reports: Box 867, Going with All - Hands. Fire on the 1st. floor in the rear of a 5 story brick, commercial on the 1st. floor with a multiple dwelling above. We have 1 - line stretched and in operation. Truck's "Opening Up"

@ 02:03
Division 3: Box 867, Primary searches thru out are complete and negative. Secondary searches are in - progress. Truck's are "Opening Up" Fire was in the rear of a 1st floor deli. Probably Will Hold.

@ 02:11
Division 3: Box 867, All secondary searches are complete and negative. Fire is UnderControl at this time " K "

All - Hands:
7 - 5 - 1757 @ 13:05
Batt. 44 reports: 1757, Going to use All - Hands for a fire on the 1st floor of a 2 story occupied multiple dwelling. 1 - line stretched and in operation. 2nd line being stretched. The Truck's are "Opening Up" Fire's Doubtful.

@ 13:07
Special Call an additional Truck. Ladder 103 s/c

@ 13:08
Batt. 44: Box 1757, We have fire in the basement and 1st. floor.

@ 13:14
Division 15: Box 1757, Fire started in a 1 story garage in the rear and extended to the basement & 1st floor of a 2 story multiple dwelling. We have ( 3 ) lines stretched and in operation. Truck's are "Opening Up" Fire remains Doubtful.

@ 13:10
Division 15: All - Hands Box 1757, Fire has been knocked down. Primary search of the 1st. floor is negative. Truck's are "Opening Up" Fire is Still Doubtful.

@ 13:25
Division 15: All - Hands Box 1757, Fire in the basement and 1st floor is knocked down. Still working on the garage. Primary searches are all negative thru out. Special Call an additional Truck for overhauling.

@ 13:40
Division 15: All - Hands Box 1757, Fire is UnderControl. All primary & secondary searches are complete and negative in the multiple dwelling. Still working on the garage at this time.

@ 13:51
Division 15: All searches in the garage are complete and negative.

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Manhattan, N. Y. 09/21/05 @ 15:45 hrs.
Financial District

Box 86
address: 55 Ann Street
between: Nassau St. & William St.

86 @ 15:48
Engs. 6, 7, 10
T. Lad. 1, Lad. 10
Batt. 1

@ 16:00
Batt. 1 reports: Box 86, Using All - Hands for a fire in the rear elevator shaft of a 4 story brick commercial bldg. We have 1 - line stretched and in operation. Truck Co's are "Opening Up" checking for extensions. Searches are being made. Fire is Doubtful " K "

@ 22:57
Division 6: Box 1632, All visible fire has been knocked down. Truck's are continuing to "Open Up" Primary search in the Fire Apt. is negative. The Fire Apt. is a vacant. The Fire Apt. is #5 on the 5th. floor. Primary search in the adjacent Apts. are also negative. Still Doubtful.

Wallington – man rescued
Fire crews were called to a fire in a flat on Central Avenue in Wallington early this morning. A man who had climbed out onto a flat roof to escape the blaze had to be rescued by firefighters, he was taken to hospital by the London Ambulance Service suffering from shock and smoke inhalation. Crews managed to stop the blaze from spreading throughout the property. The cause of the fire is being investigated. The Brigade was called at 0331 and the fire was under control by 0408. Crews from Wallington, Croydon and Purley fire stations attended the incident.

1938 - Northeast - USA - New England Hurricane of 1938 - Telephone and power out in Amherst NH for two weeks - As the Hurricane of 1938 approached Long Island Sound, the eye of the storm was 50 miles wide. Sustained winds were in the area of 70 to 110 miles per hours as the hurricane threatened Rhode Island. Over 400 deaths were caused due to extreme flooding. Massachusetts where the Blue Hill Observatory just west of Boston recorded winds of 186 mph. The hurricane passed through central Massachusetts and into the Connecticut River Valley of New Hampshire. Sustained winds of 80 mph produced severe damage in much of the state. It wasn't until after sunset that the storm passed out of the northern most reaches of the state and into Canada. Over 700 victims died from this fury of nature. Estimates put damage around $400,000,000 - Forecasters had badly erred in their prediction the hurricane would pass out to sea wide to the east of New England. In Hancock NH Hancock Congregational church in the village suffered when the storm tore off the steeple, and forced it back through the roof of the church upside down.

1938 - Peterborough - NH - Transcript Bldg and Taylor Bldg heavy fire - Many other bldgs between Contoocook River and Main St involved in fire - Mutual Aid from as far as Nashua - During Great Hurricane of 1938 - Keene could not respond as roads were washed out

Notable incidents beyond New England

1776 - New York City - NY - Multiple Fires - One quarter of city burned to ground (490 buildings) - British troops occupying city found fire engines and buckets sabotaged.

The Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is sponsoring an exhibit of photographs by photographer David J. Dubowski. The exhibit entitled FIRE IN THE LENS is in the WHMC gallery on the second floor of the Thomas Jefferson Library on the campus of the University of Missouri St. Louis. Mr. Dubowski is a Fireman and his work reflects his profession. The photographs will be on exhibit from through Monday October 31.

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